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10th October 2008
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Webmail and Spam

Spam filters are needed

Since it is necessary nowadays for almost every e-mail address to a spam filter Please be careful, many manufacturers of e-mail clients have done so already.

But what is with webmail clients, such as the Committee set up by me phlyMail ?

Problems with SpamAssassin and Confixx

Now is a practical example in this PHP webmail client already installed an option to filter spam using external tool. By default this is by SpamAssassin

  spamassassin <$ 1> $ 2 

called, but this leads to retrieve received mail from a hail of error messages, because by default Confixx web servers, the $ HOME directory is not writable. These settings are for a simple Web hosting in most cases from the hosting set and so not be changed. So somehow had found her another way.

  spamassassin-p / var/www/web247/files/spam/user_prefs <$ 1> $ 2 

This change means that SpamAssassin is now using the user_pref file itself can be configured. Of course, this is the host of one of its global config have allowed ...

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